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Y. IMPROVEMENT IN coTToN-cULTIvAToa AND snoeren. l

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Be it known that we, ZIN-. A DooLITTLE and A. M1. Gnownnn, of' Houston Factory, in the county of Houston, and State of Georgia, have invented a new and improved Cotton-GultivatorY and hopper; and we do .hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description theredf, which will enable others skilledY in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the-accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification. y

rlhis invention relates to a new and improved device for cultivating cotton, scraping the earth from the sides of the plants, vremoving weeds, dto., thinning out the plant-Land 'throwing fresh earth up to the saine, all being donesimultaneously, or at lone operation.. In the accompanyimg sheet of drawingsl Figure 1 is a side sectional view of our invention, taken in the line x :v, iig. 2.

Figurei2,'a plan or top view of' the same. p v

Figure 3, a detached inverted plan of alremovable frame pertaining to the same.

AFigure 4, a section of a portion ofthe device, taken in the line y y, iig.' 2.

Figure 5, a front view of `the. outerv end of a lever-arm pertaining to the same- Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingr parts. A

A. represents a rectangular frame, which is mounted on the wheels 'B B, and has handles, C 0 attached. To the front end of the frame A there ispermanently secured a semicircular bar, D, to which the outer part of a radius draught-rod, E, is securedby a bolt, a, the inner end of the rod E being secured to the front cross-bar of the frameA by a' bolt, b. The semicircular bar D isV perforated with a number of holes, c, through any of which the bolt a may pass, in order to admit of the adjustment'of the rod E for one or two horses, as may he required. This will be fully understood by referring to iig. 2. The c1ossbar cl o-f the frame A, as well as the one e, in front of it,are slotted horizontally to allow clamps', j', to ,pass through to secure Scrapers FF, and.

shares 'Gr G, to them respectively, as shown more particularly in fig. 1. The Scrapers F F are so formed as to scrape the earth away from the plants, and remove or cut od weeds, a scraper working at each side of the row of plants. The rear shares GG'are made similar to cultivator-teeth, and serve to throw fresh -earth towards thegrow'ing plants. On the frame A4 there is secured by a bolt, g, a supplemental frame, H, in which thereaie ttedtwo vertical arborsfl I, oneat each side,.said arbors being allowed 'to turn freely in said frame, and having each a right-angular-lever, J, on their upper ends, as shown clearly in g. 2. -These lever-s J J are connected by a bar, K, and` one of the levers J is connected by a link, L, with a lever-ar1n, M, one end of which is connected hy-a fulcrum-pin, g, to one side of the frame H, said arm M extending centrally acrossthe frame, and havinga swinging pendant, N, secured to its outer end, said pendant being 4so arranged that it may swing back ward, but not forward. The lever-arm M has a spring, O, bearing 'against it, which spring has va tendency to keep the lever-arm pressed backward to its fullest extent. Torthe lowest parts of the vertical ar-brs I I there Y are attached cutters, P P, which are of right-angular form, as shown clearly in fie. 3, and they are operated, .moved towards and from each other, by the motion. of the lever-arm M, thellatter being actuated by pins, z, which project horizontally from one of the wheels B, ou which the 'machine is mounted, and by the, spring 0,

the lever-arm causing the cutters to be'forced outward from each other, and the spring O forcing them'back or towards each other, the cutters, asrthey approaclf each other under this action of the spring, cutting orY throwing outthe plants. The pins 7L maybe at Va greateror less distance apart, according to the distance required between the standing plants, and in order to avoid the inconvenienceof adjusting are a series of pins, and each side of each wheel B may be supplied with them, eachseries being placed atditl'erent distances apart. It will be understood, of course, that either wheel may be adjustedon-eitherlarm of thefaxle, and either side of each wheel placed inwa-rdor towards the machine, so that its pinsh may work in contact with Vpendant'l-J ofthe lever-arm. The swinginglpendant N admits oi' the machine beiug'backed without any difficulty arhatever, as the pins 7i simply throwback the pendant N, whichis, as previously stated, allowed'to swing freely backward. To one side of the machine there is attached a slide-rod, Q, the rcanend of which is connected `to a iever, R. The front end of the rod Q is turned upward, and is directly behindthe lever-arm M. By drawingupward the outer Vend of lever R, the end is shoved forward, and the lever-arm M moved beyond the reach of the pins L,

so that the cutters P will remain inoperative as the machine is drawn along.

Having thus described our invention, what we claimA as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1. The cutters P, connected to vertical arbors I, operated through the media of the levers J J, link L,

lever-arm M, and pins 71., on the wheels B, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein setforth.

2. The serapersfF F and'shares G G, in combination with the cutters P P, all constructed and arranged t0 operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The adjustable draught-rod E and semicrcular bar D, arranged as showin, for the purpose of adapting the machine for one or two horses.

4. yThe slide-rod Q and lever R, arranged and applied to the device., substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of our invention signed by us, this'24th dayof October, 1867.

ZINA DOOLITTLE,

A. M. CROWDER.

Witnesses JOHN T. COOPER, JOHN R. Pmaon. 

